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Word Roots 7: Intermediate-roots SPECT, STA, VERT, all 12 words — myVocabulary.com

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Directions:

Latin roots are: SPECT-SPIC = look at, see, examine, watch; STA = stand and VERT = turn.
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Clue:

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Vocabulary Word List:

Latin roots SPECT-SPEC = watch, see, look, appear; STA-SIST = stand, place; and VERT-VERS = turn.

  • Beginner: advertisement, circumstance, constant, conversation, distant, inspection, prospect, revert, spectacle, standard, suspect, vertical
  • Intermediate: anniversary, conspicuous, disrespect, diversify, establish, speculate, stamina, statistics, superstitious, suspicion, universal, versatility
  • Advanced: auspicious, aversion, circumspect, constituents, despicable, destitute, ecstasy, extrovert, obstinate, perverse, specious, vertigo

1) To consider or think curiously about; to suppose; to engage in thought or reflection (verb)

2) Discourtesy; rudeness; feeling of distrust: misgiving (noun)

3) Easily seen or noticed; readily observable; attracting special attention (adjective)

4) Mental uneasiness and uncertainty: doubt; a slight touch or trace: suggestion; degree of probability that something will occur (noun)

5) Yearly recurrence of the date of past events; celebration of a date (noun)

6) Applicable everywhere or in all cases; characteristic of a whole without limit or exception (adjective)

7) Capability of adapting or turning easily from one to another of various tasks; changeability (noun)

8) To make unlike as in form or character; to give or produce variety (verb)

9) To bring into being on a firm or permanent basis; to install in a position or place (verb)

10) Strength or power to endure fatigue or stress; endurance (noun)

11) Science dealing with the collection, analysis and interpretation of numerical data (plural noun)

12) Believing in an irrational notion resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown or belief in fate, omens or magic (adjective)

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